ROMMEL?" "GUNNER WHO ?" A Confrontation in the Desert. War Biography Volume 2 Spike Milligan (ISBN:0718107330) London, Michael Joseph, 1974 1st edition. Description: Fine copy. Black cloth covers, dustwraper price clipped. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, black and white drawings and photographs. 'What was the effect on the German troops of Gunner Milligan playing 'Mother Macree' in the midst of the shelling of an Observation Post on a lonely hill in Tunisia? Will we ever know? This volume covers Spike's march to war in the desert: a tragi-comic saga of bawdy farce mixed with introspection and day-to-day reportage of the fears and fun of a group of gunners, nursing in their bosom the embryo Goon, forever punning, playing his trumpet or, if on guard duty, disguising himself as a tree in a hole. (His C.O. sent his batman to pour a can of water over him). The confusion of war for the private soldier is conveyed in a touching and characteristically Milligan manner.
